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by simula67 9y ago
> They stopped being religious while making contributions to humanity. As if they burned through their stash My claim was merely that you don't need to be atheist to contribute to humanity > Christianity just stole those results,
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by simula67 9y ago
> this is not self-evident Self-evident is just a lazy term meaning I believe it without evidence. You could for example, be living in the matrix and the real world could operate under different art of rules or maybe no rules. Science pu
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by simula67 9y ago
While these areas where "making contributions to humanity" they were religious
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by simula67 9y ago
Define rational. Science takes many things for granted under faith : there is an observable universe, it operates under decipherable rules etc. So you seem confused
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by simula67 9y ago
Nope. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism > Two global polls on the subject have been conducted by WIN/Gallup International: their 2015 poll featured over 64,000 respondents and indicated that 11% were
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by simula67 9y ago
Nice to see the new web projects like Mastodon, Owncloud etc being released under AGPL. I hope projects like OnlyOffice, IPFS etc to move to this model
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by simula67 9y ago
Agreed, Russian citizens doing stuff may not mean Russian government ordered it
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They also organized anti-Trump protests after the election : http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/16/indictment-reveal...
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by simula67 9y ago
Google has fact checked a claim that was not made in right leaning Daily Caller website : http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/09/googles-new-fact-check-fea... Although it may be bugs and not bias : https:/&#
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Facebook and Google’s Dominance in Digital Ad Share Shrinks(emarketer.com)
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Lessons learned from Atlassian's migration to AWS(zdnet.com)
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by simula67 9y ago
The profits generated from Google's business belongs to the shareholders ( owners ) of the company. If the money can be used to defend the business ( Android, Chrome etc ) it can be - and should be - reinvested. Is self-driving cars re
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by simula67 9y ago
> This is how you end up with American payment networks like Visa and Mastercard companies charging upto 3%; customers have no chance of negotiating a better deal because they have nowhere else to go https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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Alan Kay, one of the fathers of Object Oriented programming mentioned this : > I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is &qu
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by simula67 9y ago
Thiel did not sue Gawker, Terry Bollea ( known professionally as "Hulk Hogan" ) did, Thiel only bankrolled the suit. Gawker going down was their own fault, they defied a court order in a very explicit manner : https://w
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by simula67 9y ago
Why do you think India is a low trust market ?
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by simula67 9y ago
Previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208463 I posted this in previous discussion too, a much simpler explanation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gS9tjACwU
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The argument is also that the universe itself would not exist if certain things did not happen in a very specific way
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After EPA : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/An...
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by simula67 9y ago
I wonder if these types of comments are designed to trash free market-ism and not communism ('Look, free marketists are so dumb. Ha ha ha')
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This study does not mention whether the participants where asked to do the arithmetic in their head : https://johnjerrim.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/piaac_working...
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by simula67 9y ago
Ideally if Google management wants to run these types of companies, they should pay dividend on the shares, taking money out and then invest in these businesses. The only reason I can think of for allowing Google management to throw other p
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Frequent versus infrequent developers, in languages and so on(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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All Jetbrains' IDEs are recommended
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by simula67 9y ago
Is there a Hacker News for those interested in economics ?
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Has things changed ? Debian stable was too old and testing used to break something every time I updated. I moved to ArchLinux since then
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by simula67 9y ago
> Google is known to be deathly allergic to the AGPL license. Not only on servers; they don't even allow employees to use AGPL software on workstations. If you write free software, and you'd prefer that Google not use it, a goo
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PetroChina was the first trillion dollar company : http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21635325/ns/business-world_busines...
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> Mr. Ackman first alleged in December 2012 that Herbalife, which sells through a network of distributors, was an illegal pyramid scheme and would be shut down by the government. He had personally pledged to take his campaign “to the end
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by simula67 9y ago
From the linked SlateStarCodex piece : > Conservatives always complain that liberals “deny human nature” > But here I have to give conservatives their due. As far as I can tell, Marx literally, so strongly as to be unstrawmannable, be

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